The 1997 Grammy Awards as awarded on February 28, 1998 The awards given in Feb 1998 were for recordings made in 1997. << p r e v h o m e n e x t >>
	Record of the Year Shawn Colvin For: Sunny Came Home" from A Few Small Repairs Album of the Year Bob Dylan For: Time Out of Mind Song of the Year Shawn Colvin For: "Sunny Came Home" from A Few Small Repairs Best New Artist Paula Cole For: This Fire Best Pop Album James Taylor For: Hourglass Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals John Lee Hooker with Van Morrison For: "Don't Look Back" from: Don't Look Back Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album Jars Of Clay For: Much Afraid Best Pop Instrumental Performance Sarah McLachlan For: "Last Dance" from: Surfacing Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal Jamiroquai For: "Virtual Insanity" from: Travelling Without Moving Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Tony Bennett For: Tony Bennett On Holiday Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Elton John For: "Candle In The Wind 1997" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Sarah McLachlan For: "Building A Mystery" from: Surfacing Best Rock Album John Fogerty For: Blue Moon Swamp Best Rock Instrumental Performance The Chemical Brothers For: "Block Rockin' Beats" from: Dig Your Own Hole Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Bob Dylan For: "Cold Irons Bound" from: Time Out Of Mind Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Fiona Apple For: "Criminal" from: Tidal Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal The Wallflowers For: "One Headlight" from: Bringing Down The Horse Best Rock Song Jakob Dylan, songwriter (The Wallflowers) For: "One Headlight" from: Bringing Down The Horse Best Metal Performance Tool For: "Aenema" from: Aenima Best Hard Rock Performance The Smashing Pumpkins For: "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" from: Batman & Robin - Music From & Inspired By The Motion Picture (Various Artists) Best Alternative Music Performance Radiohead For: OK Computer Best Rap Album Puff Daddy & The Family For: No Way Out Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group Puff Daddy & Faith Evans For: "I'll Be Missing You" from: Tribute To Notorious B.I.G. (Various Artists) Best Rap Solo Performance Will Smith For: "Men In Black" from: Men In Black - The Album - Soundtrack (Various Artists) Best Contemporary Blues Album Taj Mahal For: Senor Blues Best Contemporary Folk Album Bob Dylan For: Time Out Of Mind Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album Take 6 For: Brothers Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album God's Property; Myron Butler, Kirk Franklin & Robert Searight II, Choir Directors For: God's Property From Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation Best Rock Gospel Album dc Talk For: Welcome To The Freak Show: dc Talk Live In Concert Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album The Fairfield Four For: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album Various Artists; David Corlew & Peter York, compilation producers For: Amazing Grace 2: A Country Salute To Gospel Best Country Album Johnny Cash For: Unchained Best Country Collaboration With Vocals "In Another's Eyes" from: (Songbook) A Collection Of Hits For: Trisha Yearwood & Garth Brooks Best Country Instrumental Performance Alison Krauss & Union Station For: "Little Liza Jane" from: So Long So Wrong Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal Alison Krauss & Union Station For: "Looking In The Eyes Of Love" from: So Long So Wrong Best Country Song Bob Carlisle & Randy Thomas, songwriters ((Bob Carlisle) AND (Jeff Carson) AND (Raybon Bros.)) For: "Butterfly Kisses" Best Male Country Vocal Performance Vince Gill For: "Pretty Little Adriana" from: High Lonesome Sound Best Female Country Vocal Performance Trisha Yearwood For: "How Do I Live" from: (Songbook) A Collection Of Hits Best Bluegrass Album Alison Krauss & Union Station For: So Long So Wrong Best Traditional Blues Album John Lee Hooker For: Don't Look Back Best Traditional Folk Album BeauSoleil For: L'Amour Ou La Folie Best Tropical Latin Performance Ry Cooder For: Buena Vista Social Club Best World Music Album Milton Nascimento For: Nascimento Best Dance Recording Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder For: "Carry On " from: NRG Unlimited 1 (Various Artists) Best Rhythm & Blues Album Erykah Badu For: Baduizm Best Rhythm & Blues Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal Blackstreet For: "No Diggity" from: Another Level Best Rhythm & Blues Song R. Kelly, songwriter (R. Kelly) For: "I Believe I Can Fly" from: Space Jam - Soundtrack Best Female Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance Erykah Badu For: "On & On" Best Male Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance R. Kelly For: "I Believe I Can Fly" from: Space Jam - Soundtrack Best Instrumental Arrangement Bill Holman, arranger (The Bill Holman Band) For: "Straight, No Chaser" from: Brilliant Corners Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) Slide Hampton, arranger (Dee Dee Bridgewater) For: "Cotton Tail" from: Dear Ella Best Instrumental Composition Wayne Shorter, composer (Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter) For: "Aung San Suu Kyi" from: 1 + 1 Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television Gabriel Yared, composer For: The English Patient Best Musical Show Album Jay David Saks,producer; (Fred Ebb, lyricist; John Kander, composer) (Various Artists Featuring Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, James Naughton & Joel Grey) For: Chicago The Musical Best Contemporary Jazz Performance Randy Brecker For: Into The Sun Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny For: Beyond The Missouri Sky Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton For: "Stardust" from: Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton Best Jazz Vocal Performance Dee Dee Bridgewater For: Dear Ella Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance Joe Henderson Big Band For: Joe Henderson Big Band Best Latin Jazz Performance Roy Hargrove's Crisol For: Habana Best Latin Pop Performance Luis Miguel For: Romances Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance Los Fabulosos Cadillacs For: Fabulosos Calavera Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance La Mafia For: En Tus Manos Best New Age Album Michael Hedges For: Oracle Best Polka Album Jimmy Sturr For: Living On Polka Time Best Reggae Album Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers For: Fallen Is Babylon Best Classical Album Yo-Yo Ma, violoncello; David Zinman, conductor; Steven Epstein, producer (Philadelphia Orch.) For: Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works Of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse) Best Classical Contemporary Composition John Adams, composer (Kent Nagano, conductor; The Halle Orch.) For: Adams: El Dorado Classical Vocal Performance Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano (James Levine, piano) For: An Italian Songbook (Works Of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini) Best Chamber Music Performance Emerson String Quartet For: Beethoven: The String Quartets Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor) Claudio Abbado, conductor; Mbrs. Of The Berliner Phil. For: Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 With Finale 1921, Op. 24 No. 1 Best Choral Performance Robert Shaw, conductor (Karl Dent, tenor; Renee Fleming, soprano; Victor Ledbetter, baritone; Atlanta Sym. Orch. Cho.; Atlanta Sym. Orch.) For: Adams: Harmonium/ Rachmaninoff: The Bells Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) Janos Starker, cello For: Bach: Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 1 - 6 Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) Yo-Yo Ma, violoncello; David Zinman, conductor (Philadelphia Orch.) For: Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works Of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse) Best Opera Recording Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Ben Heppner; Herbert Lippert; Karita Mattila; Alan Opie; Rene Pape; Jose van Dam; Iris Vermillion; Michael Woolcock, producer (Chicago Sym. Cho.; Chicago Sym. Orch.) For: Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg Best Orchestral Performance Pierre Boulez, conductor (The Cleveland Orch. Cho.; The Cleveland Orch.) For: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Tristia Producer Of The Year, Classical Steven Epstein For: Previn: From Ordinary Things (Son. For Cello And Piano; Four Songs, Etc.) (Andre Previn, piano; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Sylvia McNair, soprano) Schubert/Boccherini: Quintets (Schubert: Quintet In C Maj./ Boccherini: Quintet In E Maj.) (Stern, violin; Lin, violin; Laredo, viola; Ma, cello & Robinson, cello) Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works Of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse) (Yo-Yo Ma, violoncello) Tan Dun: Symphony 1997 - Heaven Earth Mankind (Tan Dun, conductor) Respighi: Pini Di Roma; Feste Romane; Fontane Di Roma (Lorin Maazel, conductor) Best Engineered Album, Classical Michael Bishop & Jack Renner, engineers (Erich Kunzel, conductor) For: Copland: The Music Of America (Fanfare For The Common Man; Rodeo, Etc.) Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Frank Filipetti, engineer (James Taylor) For: Hourglass Best Musical Album For Children John Denver For: All Aboard! Best Recording Package Hugh Brown, Al Q Uattrocchi & Jeff Smith, art directors (Various Artists) For: Titanic - Music As Heard On The Fateful Voyage Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or For Television R. Kelly, songwriter (R. Kelly) For: "I Believe I Can Fly" (From Space Jam: Soundtrack) Best Spoken Comedy Album Chris Rock For: Roll With The New Best Spoken Word Album Charles Kuralt For: Charles Kuralt's Spring (Charles Kuralt) Best Spoken Word Album For Children Charles Kuralt For: Winnie-The-Pooh (A.A. Milne) Best Album Notes John Fahey, Luis Kemnitzer, Jon Pankake, Chuck Pirtle, Jeff Place, Neil V. Rosenberg, Luc Sante, Peter Stampfel & Eric Von Schmidt, album notes writers (Various Artists) For: Anthology Of American Folk Music (1997 Edition Expanded) Best Boxed Recording Package Hugh Brown, David Gorman & Rachel Gutek, art directors (Various Artists) For: Beg Scream & Shout! The Big Ol' Box Of '60s Soul Best Historical Album Jeff Place & Pete Reiniger, compilation producers; David Glasser & Charlie Pilzer, mastering engineers (Various Artists) For: Anthology Of American Folk Music (1997 Edition Expanded) Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical Babyface For: A Song For Mama (Boyz II Men) (T) Girl In The Life Magazine (Boyz II Men) (T) The Day (Babyface) (A) This Is For The Lover In You (Babyface) (S) Never (Boyz II Men) (T) Soul Food - Soundtrack (Various Artists) (A) Remixer of the Year Frankie Knuckles For: Everything (Classic Club) (Mary J. Blige) (S) I Don't Want To (Franctified Club Mix) (Toni Braxton) (S) Never Gonna Give You Up (Morning Mix) (Lisa Stansfield) (S) Never Miss The Water (Sunday Mix) (Chaka Khan Featuring Me'Shell Ndege'Ocello) (S) Un-break My Heart (Classic Radio Mix) (Toni Braxton) (S) Best Short Form Music Video Janet Jackson For: Got 'Till It's Gone Best Long Form Music Video Alanis Morissette For: Jagged Little Pill, Live
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